[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Preparing kopanocore 8.7.0-4

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Simon,

Am 01.08.19 um 14:05 schrieb Simon Eisenmann:
> Well unfortunately that particular bug was a hard one and required
> quite some changes. So it is not done with just a few commits thus
> there is no direct ticket in the commits. In the meanwhile we are at
> 8.7.5 which contains lots of additional fixes.
I understand that and I've seen the timeline on kopanocore that happen
till 8.7.5.

> Best would be to just update the packaging to 8.7.5. I understand
> that this might not be possible.
Exactly, for now I'd say the release manager wont give their agreement
on introducing such an version bump, even if this is just the micro
number that is increased because they have a look at the changes to the
source and this is quite a big change from 8.7.0 which nobody can
seriously can review.

There are only a few exceptions from this rule from the SRM (Stable
Release Manager) such as typically the web browsers Chromium and Firefox
ans sometimes also some crypto libraries if I remember right.

In the long run (stable release is about two years plus one more year
with security support, makes three years!) I suspect we or better the
user and you will find more critical issues we need to tackle with.

> I bring it up in our next dev meeting and see what we can do to
> provide a minimal set of patches on top of 8.7.0 fixing only the
> caching issue you mentioned.
Right, would be great if you can provide something!

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert